Behind the smokescreen of “dialogue” requested by the government, the diplomatic ballet and initiatives around the electoral register reveal the inescapable reality of staying in power of President Kabila beyond the constitutional deadline of December 2016.

“It’s midnight- I can’t sleep! I can’t think, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t. August 13, 2004. What a horrific night. I can’t take the image out of my mind. It’s so hard to believe that our families, our very own people were burned alive and no justice has been served! I can’t take it, I just can’t understand! Lets’ all be strong.”

“Espy,” Esperance Mfurakazi Nasezerano, was venting her fear and anxiety onFacebook. What happened to her on that night in 2004? She was eleven years old and living in a tent at a United Nations refugee camp in Gatumba, Burundi when Front National de Liberation (FNL) rebels, with Mai-Mai, Interahamwe perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide, and soldiers from the regular Congolese army entered the camp. Death was in their eyes and evil had taken over their souls.

“…First it was France, then Spain, then the UK. I don’t know who is next. When you are pushed against the wall and left with nothing else, building on that spirit, you come back in full strength. We have the power of being underrated, the power that comes from the anger of being held in contempt, and of being insulted. The real untold story is they want to change the narrative of what has happened in Rwanda that they were so deeply involved in. People say we are friends and support your development. Do you support my development and take away my dignity? In the end, we must and will prevail…” Video